Salamander - 30,000 words down and counting...
Just a quick update the progress of Salamander. As you can read, I am now over the 30,000 word mark.
Whenever I write a novel I always have these little milestones in word counts that I like to try and hit by a certain date; it could also be a certain number of words per day (usually 1,000 or 3-5,000 over the weekend). My goal for Salamander was 30,000+ by the time I go back to work on the 5th. Thankfully, I've hit that with some change too. I've still got a lot of work ahead of me as this is a 100,000 word novel (thought I suspect it will turn out longer, possibly around the 110-120,000 mark depending on how creative the production team can be with the typeset).
Chapter-wise, this puts almost at the end of chapter three (yes, they are long chapters but I'm breaking them up into parts so as to be more easily digestible - chapter three is just a 'part one' at the moment, but I'll go in and retroactively insert at least one more part. It's actually not that hard to do as the way I write tends to break down nicely into themes/scenes etc, so this is where I look for my break points, even subconsciously putting them in whilst I'm writing sometimes).
The end of this chapter will also herald the end of the involvement of a secondary group of characters I've been really enjoying writing about and developing. You'll have to read the novel to find out how all of that works out, though...
Got to say, I am really pleased with how it's going so far. I reckon this might be some of my best work to date, but I don't want to nix it, so let's leave it there.
More updates to follow...
Whenever I write a novel I always have these little milestones in word counts that I like to try and hit by a certain date; it could also be a certain number of words per day (usually 1,000 or 3-5,000 over the weekend). My goal for Salamander was 30,000+ by the time I go back to work on the 5th. Thankfully, I've hit that with some change too. I've still got a lot of work ahead of me as this is a 100,000 word novel (thought I suspect it will turn out longer, possibly around the 110-120,000 mark depending on how creative the production team can be with the typeset).
Chapter-wise, this puts almost at the end of chapter three (yes, they are long chapters but I'm breaking them up into parts so as to be more easily digestible - chapter three is just a 'part one' at the moment, but I'll go in and retroactively insert at least one more part. It's actually not that hard to do as the way I write tends to break down nicely into themes/scenes etc, so this is where I look for my break points, even subconsciously putting them in whilst I'm writing sometimes).
The end of this chapter will also herald the end of the involvement of a secondary group of characters I've been really enjoying writing about and developing. You'll have to read the novel to find out how all of that works out, though...
Got to say, I am really pleased with how it's going so far. I reckon this might be some of my best work to date, but I don't want to nix it, so let's leave it there.
More updates to follow...
Labels: Salamander
posted by Nick Kyme at
09:33
1 Comments:
Good to see the progress on this Nick. Do you have a fixed amount of chapters in your mind already or will you decide on the total number of them when you've done a bit more of the novel? I'm just interested in the type of planning that goes into a novel.
I haven't commented for a while but I've been lurking this blog. Anyhow, I'll try to be a little more active.
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